All Episodes

Insect decline, Gut microbiome, Geomagnetic switching

Sea Level Rise, Equine Flu, Generator Bricks, Iberian Genes

Sprinting Neanderthals, Geodynamo, Spreading Sneezes and Dying Hares

Ultima Thule, Dry January, Periodic Table

Gene-edited twins, Placenta organoids in a dish, When the last leaves drop

Mars InSight mission, Detecting dark matter, Redefining the kilogram, Bovine TB

Bovine TB and badger culling, Shrimp hoover CSI, Shark-skin and Turing

Oldest cave picture; the Anthropocene under London; a new scientist for the £50 note

Repairing potholes, Ozone hole, Internet of hives, Drugs from fingerprints

Science and Brexit, Antibiotic livestock growth promoters, Bepicolombo goes to Mercury

Old Dogs and Physics in Space

IPCC report, Cairngorms Connect project, grass pea, the Sun exhibition at Science Museum

Nobel Prizes - Hayabusa 2 latest - IPCC meeting - North Pole science

Hyabusa 2 at Ryugu, deadly 1918 flu pandemic; WW2 bombing and ionosphere, teenage brain

Science of Addiction

First human drawing, Cycling genes, Oden Arctic expedition, Hello World

Complexity in Biology

Electronic brain probe; Rural stream biodiversity; Arctic weather research trip; Science book prize

Cavendish banana survival; Guillemot egg shape; Unexpected Truth About Animals; Tambora's rainstorm

Capturing greenhouse gas, Beating heart failure with beetroot, Why elephants don't get cancer, Exactly - a history of precision

New Horizons' next mission, Helium at 150, The Beautiful Cure, Oden arctic expedition

Parker solar probe, Diversity in the lab, Royal Society book prize, Arctic circle weather

Liquid water on Mars, Early embryo development, Earth Biogenome Project, Marine wilderness

Peatbog wildfires, Coral acoustics, Magdalena Skipper, Fuelling long-term space travel

Out of Africa, Predicting future heatwaves, Virtual reality molecules, Life in the dark

Northern white rhino preservation, Deep sea earthquake detection, Twitter's rare Heuchera discovery, Human roars

Hyabusa mission; ProtoDUNE neutrino detector; Caledonian crow skills; Koala microbiome

The Large Hadron Collider Upgrade, Voltaglue, Cambridge Zoology Museum, Francis Willughby

Antarctic melt speeds up, Antarctica's future, Cryo-acoustics, Narwhals

Dinosaur auction, Who owns the genes of the ocean life, Cancer immunotherapy

Hay Festival

CO2 and rice, Underground farming, Ancient interstellar asteroid, Microplastics air pollution

Face Recognition, ‘Thug’ plants, Cancer Funding Inequalities, Feynman’s 100th birthday

Rat eradication; elephant talk; the rise of the dinosaurs; physics of snooker

Antarctic, Kew, Paleogenomics, Sea birds

Human Consciousness: Could a brain in a dish become sentient?

Plastic-eating bacteria, Foam mattresses for crops, The evolved life aquatic, The Double Helix

Pesticides in British Farming

Stephen Hawking Tribute

Genes and education, John Goodenough, Caring bears and hunting

Data Scraping

Buzz kill

Russian Spy Poisoning

Weird Weather?

Science after Brexit

Shipping air pollution; Cheddar Man; Millirobots in the body;Dog brain training

Democracy in Space

Scientists on Trial

Did typhoid kill the Aztecs, DNA stored in Bitcoin, Glow-in-the-dark plants and levitating humans

African swine fever, Oil spill update, CRISPR gene editing, Rat eradication in New Zealand, Chimp kin recognition

Sanchi oil tanker, Gut gas-monitoring pill and Chimpanzee portraits

Tabby's Star, Space 2018, Mosquito sounds, C diff and food additive link

Ancient DNA and Human Evolution

Antisense RNA therapy, Fossils vs Trump, Printing mini-kidneys, Electric eel power

The Future of Coral Reefs, Little Foot, Arthur C Clarke

Trophy hunting, Gene drives, Nuclear lightning, Peregrine falcons and drones

Prehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial Superintelligence

Interstellar visitor, Svante Paabo, Synthetic biology, Plight of the Axolotl

Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis Galton

Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis

Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent

Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur

Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius

HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter

Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling, Fausto - an AI opera

Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave acoustics

Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn

North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo Chuckle

Noxious haze over south coast; In Pursuit of Memory book; technosphere; Big Wasp Survey

Killer robots; Myths and superstitions and conservation; Science book prize nominee - Cordelia Fine; Taxidermy

Antarctica's volcanoes, science book prize nominee - Mark O'Connell, US solar eclipse and 40 years of NASA's Voyager mission

European heatwave and climate change, Eugenia Cheng, Next generation batteries for electric cars, Joseph Hooker exhibition.

Gene-editing human embryos, Spaceman's eyes, Science book prize, Sexual selection in salmon

Cod fisheries, Our connection to nature, Domestic electricity and Gamma ray bursts

Genetics and privacy, Global plastic, Great Ape Dictionary, Ocean Discovery X Prize

Genetic testing; Pugs on treadmills; Frankenstein

Neonics dispute, Hygenic bees, Hip-hop MRI

Sex bias in biology, Engineering prize, Olympic bats, Angry Chef

Forensics Centre in Dundee; D'Arcy Thompson centenary; Scottish science adviser; Coffee and climate

Science in Fire Prevention

Early Humans Were Even Earlier Than We Thought

The Importance of Basic Research

Sherpas - dolphin rescue - quantum computing - hot lavas

Childhood cancers - Ghana telescope - Nano-listening device for cells - Ancient whales

Violins - Social networks and cliques in great tits and snow monkeys - Exploring DNA and art

The moral brain, stem cell developments, ancient DNA in cave dirt, mangrove forest

Homo naledi, First humans in America, Dark matter detector, New theory of dark matter

Cassini’s death, scrapping diesel, weather balloon, satellites monitoring volcanos

23andMe Genetic Sequencing, Human Knockout genes, Coral Bleaching

Creation of island Britain, Sleep gene, Mary Kelly forensics, Global Tree Search survey

Climate change and extreme weather; Primate brain size; Earthquake forecasting; Planet 9

Comet 67P images; Etna eruption; Brain navigation; Octopus intelligence

Boaty McBoatface in Antarctica, Aeroplane biofuels, Bakhshali manuscript, Goldilocks zones

Rise of the Robots: 3. Where is my mind?

Cells and Celluloid: Aliens on Film

Rise of the Robots: 2. More human than human

Rise of the Robots: 1. The history of things to come

Earth's Earliest Life, The Benefits of Pollution, Sexuality and Science and New ideas on Evolution

The perils of fake science news, The neanderthal inside us, What The Beatles really sang - statistically speaking

Science and cyber security, Dinosaur babies, Winston Churchill and level crossings